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Does PVC have a future in healthcare?

Automotive plastics market steadily growing

Clariant extends CLARITY Prime in China with SECCO partnership

Lotte completes Indonesian petrochemical complex

INEOS files anti-dumping complaints in EU

Shin-Etsu Chemical develops recyclable thermoplastic silicone

This Week in History

November 17, 2014: Styrolution becomes wholly owned by INEOS and changes name to INEOS Styrolution

November 18, 1998: Hoeschst AG announces that is spinning off Celanese. The new company will be called Celanese AG.

November 19, 1872: The injection molding machine was patented by John Wesley Hyatt.

Borouge introduces new medical grade LDPE

LyondellBasell posts 890 million dollar loss

Automotive recycled content use surges

Evonik increases long-chain polyamide capacity in China

Braskem approves expansion at Rio petrochemical complex

Meraxis to acquire REHAU Group compounding plant in Velen, Germany

SABIC’s new PPE/PS blend eliminates butadiene in water management applications

LYB launches impact resistant PP for packaging and industrial applications

Polyplastics to distribute some Mitsui engineering grades

Ford Expedition wins top SPE award

Dow beats loss expectations

NNA Polymers to build Polyacrylamide plant in Texas

Polyplastics to split and transfer engineering plastics business to Daicel

LYB launches PP impact copolymer for high performance applications

Syensqo launches low-density HPPA for consumer electronics industry

Mitsubishi researching new antithrombogenic TPE for medical device use

Prices for PE, PP, PS and PVC flat to down, PET an outlier

This Week in History

October 27, 1938: DuPont officially unveils a new product called “Nylon” to the public

October 30, 1956: Robert Neal MacDonald at DuPont is granted a patent for acetal homopolymer

November 1, 1984: The model year 1985 Chevrolet Cavalier becomes the first vehicle to have front and rear bumper fascias made from TPO. The material was Himont ETA3041

November 1, 2023: DuPont sells its Delrin brand acetal business to private equity firm TJC

Trelleborg, Celanese reinvent ball joint boots

Syensqo unveils lightweight polyamide for electronics

Kraiburg develops TPE series for contact with fatty foods

INEOS to close to production sites in Germany

This Week in History

October 24, 1911: Nathaniel C Wyeth who patented the PET bottle in 1973 was born.

October 25, 2013: Celanese announces that the Ticona company name will be removed from its polymer products, such as Celcon brand acetal, and replaced with the Celanese company name. Ticona was formed in 1963 as a joint venture between Celanese Corporation of America and Hoechst AG.

Trinseo shutting plants in Europe due to market challenges

NNA Polymers to build polyacrylamide plant in Texas

Borealis expands XLPE production in Sweden

Dow’s Freeport Texas plant suffers fire

Asahi Kasei expands healthcare materials portfolio

Syensqo launches orange PPS grade for extruded busbars

OQ launches PP random copolymer for water piping

Celanese unveils several new materials at K Show

LyondellBasell expands Purell medical-grade polymer portfolio to North America

Nova Chemicals launches new fluoropolymer free PE grades

Clariant rejects damage claims from BP and ExxonMobil over ethylene cartel infringement

BASF launches polyamide with high water permeability

SABIC to launch non-fluorinated resins for wire and cable applications

Improve your melt flow tests with smarter plastometers

The Plastics Industry Association and the Society of Plastics Engineers are merging

PTXPO 2026 opens registration

Polyplastics unveils new Durast powdered materials

Formosa launches North America’s largest horizontal PP reactor in Texas

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Lanxess to sell its shares in Envalior joint venture

Syensqo launches medical-grade PVDF

October 2025: Prices for volume resins mostly flat entering 4th quarter

This Week in History

September 29, 1910: Donald Fletcher Holmes was born. He co-patented the process to manufacture TPU while working at DuPont.

The history of polystyrene

Medical polymers front and center at MD&M Minneapolis

Mitsui, Idemitsu and Sumitomo considering forming joint venture to produce PP and LLDPE

BASF unveils first high-permeability polyamide

LANXESS to boost rubber additive manufacturing in the US

Michael Day Enterprises suffers fire

This Week in History

September 18, 1789: Johann Eduard Simon was born. He would accidentally invent polystyrene in 1839.

ExxonMobil seeks exit from European chemicals sector

Borealis expands PP compounding in Austria

Polychim and Milliken introduce new high clarity PP grades in Europe

Asahi Kasei to showcase PFAS free polyamide at K show

Asahi Kasei, Mitsui Chemicals and Mitsubishi Chemicals form partnership for PE plants in Japan

Polymerization Made Simple: Basics for understanding plastic behavior

This Week in History

September 10, 1898: Waldo Lonsbury Semon was born. He did not invent PVC but is credited with turning PVC into a commercially viable product in 1926.

Arclin acquires Kevlar and Nomex from DuPont

Kraiburg develops new TPE’s for auto market

Sabic develops new laser weldable PBT for EV applications

North American acrylonitrile price up in August

Asahi Kasei plans to double photosensitive polyimide output by 2030

ASTM introduces new standards for testing certified compostable products

ALBIS expands into Brazilian market with acquisition of Tecnomatiz

Celanese taps Bjorn Thorsen to distribute elastomers in Europe